Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and her Republican challenger Joe Kent advanced to the general election runoff in Washington’s congressional primary election on Aug. 6.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a first-term member, is regarded as one of the most vulnerable House Democrats in the 2024 election cycle—representing a Republican-leaning district in southwest Washington.
She flipped the district in 2022 after the incumbent Republican representative Jamie Herrara Beutler (R-Wash.) was denounced by former President Donald Trump and subsequently finished third in that year’s primary election. Beutler had voted to impeach Trump for the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Gluesenkamp Perez placed first in the primary with 46.9 percent of the vote as of midnight Eastern Standard Time, followed by Kent in second place with 38.4 percent. Kent, a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer and Gold Star widower, previously ran against Gluesenkamp Perez in 2022….